Super nice new stud colt

On Saturday, May 11th Smokey gave us a beautiful red roan stud colt! WOW!!! He is certainly a looker with a great color!

 

Two new additions so far!



Royal and filly in front --- Drifter and stud in back



Drifter and stud colt

Royals' filly

 













On April 15th we were excited to find that not one but two new babies decided to make an appearance! Not to be out done, full sisters Srb Country Drifter and Srb Royal Drifter gave us, the first time in 8 or so years of having colts, two babies on the same day. Drifters is a stud colt and Royals a little filly. If you have seen our colts in the past, they go through about 5 different colors before weaning time so I think they will be either red roans or red duns, they both have dorsal stripes. We have had two days in a row of new ones but never on the same day. So far they are the only two on the ground. Our lovely Iowa  weather (not!!!) has not given me much chance to get out and take my usual pictures but as always there will be more pictures of these two and the future babies in the weeks to come! As mentioned, Drifter and Royal are full sisters so the papers would look the same as above except for name of dam.

Watch Joe Shaq

Here are just a couple pictures of our stallion, Watch Joe Shaq. He is now 11 years old and has proved to be a great mix with our mares. I am the first to admit that when Dad and Mom bought him as a yearling I thought they were crazy getting that funny looking roan but now I think he is absolutely gorgeous! I know somewhere in my blog history "Shaq's" bloodlines are on here already but here is a quick overview; he is out of Watch Joe Jack Bars (Watch Joe Jack and Elano) and Sue Fancy (Fancy Roan Bar Boy and Toms Sue Bark).

Malachi and his Windy Creek mare

My nephew Malachi recently had his senior pictures taken, his quarter horse mare was a part of the action. "Roanie" is out of our Shaq and Royal and is already 5 years old ( I think anyway). The two of them made an awesome sight in our Iowa sunset. Here are just a few of the pictures snapped that day by my sister and myself. If you look in my 2008 post you will see "Roan Bar Beauty" a.k.a. Roanie as a weanling, also in that year you will see a young Malachi with "Watch Fancy Cane."

Watch Kay Cee Cane

Canes filly from this year, Watch Kay Cee Cane is now at home with her sister Watch Dixie Rose in South Dakota! Smokey's little stud colt is now sold too so we are "sold out" of our weanlings! Thanks to everyone who purchased one of our babies, keep us in mind for next years babies!

Watch Dixie Rose

I don't have a new picture to add but wanted to share the name of Drifter and Shaq's 2012 red roan filly. We got her registration papers back from the AQHA and her registered name is Watch Dixie Rose! Got the idea from a Trent Willmon song since this little filly has everything that you could want the name seemed a good fit! My brother and his family purchased her and are really impressed with how she is coming along.

pictures taken this past tuesday

Cane's filly

Syd's filly

Smokey's stud colt

Drifter's filly

Syd's --Drifter's --Royal's stud colt

What a switch our babies have gone through this summer! Both Smokey's and Canes babies have roaned(not sure if that is even a word, hope you know what I mean) out and the rest are looking  as great as ever. So far Syd's and Royal's are spoken for.  They are  all looking great, acting great, and are just a great bunch of babies all around. Now if we could just get some rain...